[Bob M.]

REPLY: Even though I meant my little "treatise" to be tongue-in-cheek, you are making my point exactly. In Federation, you're concerned with the direction of force of the pass, independent of the player's movement. In NCAA, because of their rule, the resultant sum of the player's movement, the initial velocity of the pass, as well as the velocity of the ambient wind will determine whether the pass moves ahead of (illegal) or behind (legal) the point of release.